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The Foxes of Harrow is a 1947 American adventure film directed by John M. Stahl. The film stars Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, and Richard Haydn. It is based on the novel of the same name by Frank Yerby, the sixth best-selling novel in the US in 1946. [4]
With Rex Harrison, Maureen O'Hara, Richard Haydn, Victor McLaglen. In pre-Civil War New Orleans, Louisiana, roguish Irish gambler Stephen Fox (Sir Rex Harrison) buys his way into society, something he couldn't do in his homeland because he is illegitimate.
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- Action, Drama, Romance
- John M. Stahl
- 1947-09-24
The Foxes of Harrow was one of the best-selling novels of 1946, prompting Fox to pay $150,000 for the screen rights. The book bore more than a passing resemblance to other historical romances like Gone With the Wind and Anthony Adverse, but its first-time author was an original.
Stephen Fox rises to become the patriarch of Harrow, a New Orleans plantation. He is sympathetic to the Northern cause, but he owns slaves. Fox's son and a slave boy called Inch are raised together, only to become mortal enemies, one of them hot-headed, the other philosophic. There is redemption, but it is not simple. Nothing is simple. Voodoo ...
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In 1827, Stephen Fox (Rex Harrison), illegitimate child of the illustrious Irish Harrow family, is a successful young gambler in New Orleans. Attracted to beautiful aristocratic Creole Odalie D...
- Drama
- Rex Harrison, Maureen O'hara, Victor Mclaglen
- John M. Stahl
A historical romance by Frank Yerby about an Irish immigrant's rise and fall in New Orleans society. The novel is a picaresque tale that challenges southern myths and became a best-seller and a movie.
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